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Isaac Gill was born on 20 April 1760 in New Britain, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a son of William Gill and Esther Wells.
Shoemaker.
Private, Third Company, Third Battalion, Bucks County Militia under Captain Henry Darroch during the Revolutionary War in 1780 and 1781.
He married
(1) ______ Murdoch in 1783 and
(2) Susanna Barber in 1789.
He removed from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania where he served in the Fifth Battalion of the Northumberland County Militia under Captain Laist in 1790.
Resident of Berlin Town, Northumberland County (present-day New Berlin, Union County) by 1795.
Resident of East Buffalo, Northumberland County (present-day Union County) in 1800.
He and his family visited or resettled temporarily in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in late 1800 or early 1801.
By 1802, he was in West Buffalo, Northumberland County (present-day Union County), where he lived on Robert Barber's farm and was listed as a "jobber" on the tax list.
In the spring of 1802, he dug the grave for Joseph Green in Lewis churchyard.
He removed to Hartley, Northumberland County (present-day Union County), Pennsylvania by 1812.
Resident of West Buffalo, Union County, Pennsylvania in 1820.
He joined his sons Thomas Gill and Matthew Gill in Centre County, Pennsylvania by 1822.
Isaac Gill died on 23 February 1823 in Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
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NOTES FOR ISAAC GILL
20 Apr 1760 - born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
12 Jun 1780 - Private, 8th Class, 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, Bucks County Militia under Captain Henry Darroch (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 5, vol. 5, p. 362)
21 Aug 1780 - assessed a muster fine of £540; Captain Henry Darroch's Company, Third Battalion, Bucks County Militia, New Britain Township (Appeal book, 3rd Battalion, Bucks County)
1780 - New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania: single; £5 valuation; "at Do. [ditto]" {directly below Matthew Gill, who is "at Mother's"} (township assessment)
1781 - Private, Captain Henry Darroch's Company of the Bucks County Militia (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 3, vol. 6, p. 83); 4 shillings 6 pence fines paid for April and May 1781 muster days
23 Jul 1781 - New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania: listed as having missed one muster day out of five in the first part of the year, Captain Henry Darroch's Company, Bucks County Militia
1790 - not enumerated as head-of-household in first national census; militia roll, Fifth Battalion, Northumberland County Militia under Captain Andrew Laist (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 6, vol. 3, p. 924); "absentee" from Captain Laist's Company
c. 1795 - Berlin Town [New Berlin], Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: house and lot; $20 valuation (undated township assessment list immediately preceding the one for 1796)
1796 - Town of Berlin [New Berlin], Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: $10 real estate valuation (township assessment)
1799 - "Town of Berlin [New Berlin] in E. Buffaloe," Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 lot with $12 value; 2 cents tax (township assessment)
1800 - East Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania (census, p. 719; 2-1-1-1-0 || 2-0-0-1-0 [2 males under 10; 1 male 10-15; 1 male 16-25; 1 male 26-44 || 2 females under 10; 1 female 26-44]); listed as an inhabitant of New Berlin [East Buffalo, Northumberland {Union}, Pennsylvania] (Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania; John Blair Linn; 1877; p. 322); he and his wife may have visited or settled briefly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania late in 1800 or in 1801, where his son Matthew Gill was said to have been born
Feb 1802 - dug the grave for Captain Joseph Green [{1720 - 15 Feb 1802}; grist and sawmill owner, West Buffalo] in Lewis Church yard "in the spring" of that year (The Centre Reporter; 6 September 1872)
1802 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: on land owned by Robert Barber, with a house and stable; 1 cow; jobber; tax 82 cents (township assessment); "lived near Barber [mill] White Springs [{Northumberland} Union County, Pennsylvania]" according to the testimony of his son, William Gill, as recorded in the 6 Sep 1872 article in Centre Reporter {"In 1791, Robert Barber built a sawmill on his farm on White Spring Run. In 1797, he built a gristmill on the same stream." Genealogy of the Barber Family; Edwin Atlee Barber; 1890; p. 38}
1803 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 17 cents (township assessment)
1804 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 12 cents (township assessment)
1808 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; cabin on land owned by Solomon Heise; taxed 23 cents (township assessment)
1809 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; shoemaker; taxed 23 cents (township assessment)
1810 - shoemaker; West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania (census, p. 333; 1-4-0-0-1 || 1-1-1-0-1 [1 male under 10; 4 males 10-15; 1 male over 44 || 1 female under 10; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 16-25; 1 female over 44]); 1 cow; tax 23 cents; poor schoolchildren's list, aged 6-12: Thomas, 11; Matthew and Rebecca, twins, 9; Abner, 6 (township assessment) {Note: From census records, Isaac Gill had at least nine children, though there may have been 10 or more. The 1810 census indicates at least one additional son or male child, born between about 1794 and 1800, who is not accounted for on the 1800 census.}
1811 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; cabin on 1 acre of land owned by Solomon Heise; tax 32 cents (township assessment)
1812 - Hartley, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; 3 cents personal tax; 25 cents occupational tax (township assessment); crossed out in West Buffalo, Northumberland, Pennsylvania township assessment list
1814 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: shoemaker; 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1815 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1816 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1817 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: shoemaker; 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1818 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1819 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment); crossed out
1820 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania (census, p. 82A; 0-0-0-1-0-1 || 0-0-0-1-1 [1 male 18-25; 1 male over 44 || 1 female 26-44; 1 female over 44]; 1 person engaged in manufactures); mentioned in the will of his brother, Matthew Gill of New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania, in reference to his son, also named Matthew Gill; West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: on land owned by "S[amuel] Barber, Sr." with a cabin; 1 cow; shoemaker; tax 28 cents (township assessment)
1821 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1822 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1823 - Potter, Centre, Pennsylvania: cooper; married; $89 valuation [$75 for occupation; $14 for one cow]; taxed 13 cents (township assessment) {crossed out - "gone" in 1824}
23 Feb 1823 - died in Potter, Centre, Pennsylvania {buried in Tusseyville Cemetery, Penns Valley, Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania [now Emanuel Union Church cemetery, Tusseyville; present church built in 1837]; the Spangler Papers incorrectly list his date of death as the 25th of February, 1823}
HERE [sunburst] RESTS
ISAAC GILL
HE WAS BORN THE
2oth DAY oF APRIL 176o
DIED 23D DAY oF FEBY.
1823
AGED 62 Y 10 m & 5 D
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Isaac Gill was born on 20 April 1760 in New Britain, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a son of William Gill and Esther Wells.
Shoemaker.
Private, Third Company, Third Battalion, Bucks County Militia under Captain Henry Darroch during the Revolutionary War in 1780 and 1781.
He married
(1) ______ Murdoch in 1783 and
(2) Susanna Barber in 1789.
He removed from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania where he served in the Fifth Battalion of the Northumberland County Militia under Captain Laist in 1790.
Resident of Berlin Town, Northumberland County (present-day New Berlin, Union County) by 1795.
Resident of East Buffalo, Northumberland County (present-day Union County) in 1800.
He and his family visited or resettled temporarily in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in late 1800 or early 1801.
By 1802, he was in West Buffalo, Northumberland County (present-day Union County), where he lived on Robert Barber's farm and was listed as a "jobber" on the tax list.
In the spring of 1802, he dug the grave for Joseph Green in Lewis churchyard.
He removed to Hartley, Northumberland County (present-day Union County), Pennsylvania by 1812.
Resident of West Buffalo, Union County, Pennsylvania in 1820.
He joined his sons Thomas Gill and Matthew Gill in Centre County, Pennsylvania by 1822.
Isaac Gill died on 23 February 1823 in Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
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NOTES FOR ISAAC GILL
20 Apr 1760 - born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
12 Jun 1780 - Private, 8th Class, 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, Bucks County Militia under Captain Henry Darroch (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 5, vol. 5, p. 362)
21 Aug 1780 - assessed a muster fine of £540; Captain Henry Darroch's Company, Third Battalion, Bucks County Militia, New Britain Township (Appeal book, 3rd Battalion, Bucks County)
1780 - New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania: single; £5 valuation; "at Do. [ditto]" {directly below Matthew Gill, who is "at Mother's"} (township assessment)
1781 - Private, Captain Henry Darroch's Company of the Bucks County Militia (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 3, vol. 6, p. 83); 4 shillings 6 pence fines paid for April and May 1781 muster days
23 Jul 1781 - New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania: listed as having missed one muster day out of five in the first part of the year, Captain Henry Darroch's Company, Bucks County Militia
1790 - not enumerated as head-of-household in first national census; militia roll, Fifth Battalion, Northumberland County Militia under Captain Andrew Laist (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 6, vol. 3, p. 924); "absentee" from Captain Laist's Company
c. 1795 - Berlin Town [New Berlin], Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: house and lot; $20 valuation (undated township assessment list immediately preceding the one for 1796)
1796 - Town of Berlin [New Berlin], Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: $10 real estate valuation (township assessment)
1799 - "Town of Berlin [New Berlin] in E. Buffaloe," Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 lot with $12 value; 2 cents tax (township assessment)
1800 - East Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania (census, p. 719; 2-1-1-1-0 || 2-0-0-1-0 [2 males under 10; 1 male 10-15; 1 male 16-25; 1 male 26-44 || 2 females under 10; 1 female 26-44]); listed as an inhabitant of New Berlin [East Buffalo, Northumberland {Union}, Pennsylvania] (Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania; John Blair Linn; 1877; p. 322); he and his wife may have visited or settled briefly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania late in 1800 or in 1801, where his son Matthew Gill was said to have been born
Feb 1802 - dug the grave for Captain Joseph Green [{1720 - 15 Feb 1802}; grist and sawmill owner, West Buffalo] in Lewis Church yard "in the spring" of that year (The Centre Reporter; 6 September 1872)
1802 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: on land owned by Robert Barber, with a house and stable; 1 cow; jobber; tax 82 cents (township assessment); "lived near Barber [mill] White Springs [{Northumberland} Union County, Pennsylvania]" according to the testimony of his son, William Gill, as recorded in the 6 Sep 1872 article in Centre Reporter {"In 1791, Robert Barber built a sawmill on his farm on White Spring Run. In 1797, he built a gristmill on the same stream." Genealogy of the Barber Family; Edwin Atlee Barber; 1890; p. 38}
1803 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 17 cents (township assessment)
1804 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 12 cents (township assessment)
1808 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; cabin on land owned by Solomon Heise; taxed 23 cents (township assessment)
1809 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; shoemaker; taxed 23 cents (township assessment)
1810 - shoemaker; West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania (census, p. 333; 1-4-0-0-1 || 1-1-1-0-1 [1 male under 10; 4 males 10-15; 1 male over 44 || 1 female under 10; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 16-25; 1 female over 44]); 1 cow; tax 23 cents; poor schoolchildren's list, aged 6-12: Thomas, 11; Matthew and Rebecca, twins, 9; Abner, 6 (township assessment) {Note: From census records, Isaac Gill had at least nine children, though there may have been 10 or more. The 1810 census indicates at least one additional son or male child, born between about 1794 and 1800, who is not accounted for on the 1800 census.}
1811 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; cabin on 1 acre of land owned by Solomon Heise; tax 32 cents (township assessment)
1812 - Hartley, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; 3 cents personal tax; 25 cents occupational tax (township assessment); crossed out in West Buffalo, Northumberland, Pennsylvania township assessment list
1814 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: shoemaker; 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1815 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1816 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1817 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: shoemaker; 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1818 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1819 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment); crossed out
1820 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania (census, p. 82A; 0-0-0-1-0-1 || 0-0-0-1-1 [1 male 18-25; 1 male over 44 || 1 female 26-44; 1 female over 44]; 1 person engaged in manufactures); mentioned in the will of his brother, Matthew Gill of New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania, in reference to his son, also named Matthew Gill; West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: on land owned by "S[amuel] Barber, Sr." with a cabin; 1 cow; shoemaker; tax 28 cents (township assessment)
1821 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1822 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1823 - Potter, Centre, Pennsylvania: cooper; married; $89 valuation [$75 for occupation; $14 for one cow]; taxed 13 cents (township assessment) {crossed out - "gone" in 1824}
23 Feb 1823 - died in Potter, Centre, Pennsylvania {buried in Tusseyville Cemetery, Penns Valley, Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania [now Emanuel Union Church cemetery, Tusseyville; present church built in 1837]; the Spangler Papers incorrectly list his date of death as the 25th of February, 1823}
HERE [sunburst] RESTS
ISAAC GILL
HE WAS BORN THE
2oth DAY oF APRIL 176o
DIED 23D DAY oF FEBY.
1823
AGED 62 Y 10 m & 5 D
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Isaac Gill was born on 20 April 1760 in New Britain, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a son of William Gill and Esther Wells.
Shoemaker.
Private, Third Company, Third Battalion, Bucks County Militia under Captain Henry Darroch during the Revolutionary War in 1780 and 1781.
He married
(1) ______ Murdoch in 1783 and
(2) Susanna Barber in 1789.
He removed from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania where he served in the Fifth Battalion of the Northumberland County Militia under Captain Laist in 1790.
Resident of Berlin Town, Northumberland County (present-day New Berlin, Union County) by 1795.
Resident of East Buffalo, Northumberland County (present-day Union County) in 1800.
He and his family visited or resettled temporarily in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in late 1800 or early 1801.
By 1802, he was in West Buffalo, Northumberland County (present-day Union County), where he lived on Robert Barber's farm and was listed as a "jobber" on the tax list.
In the spring of 1802, he dug the grave for Joseph Green in Lewis churchyard.
He removed to Hartley, Northumberland County (present-day Union County), Pennsylvania by 1812.
Resident of West Buffalo, Union County, Pennsylvania in 1820.
He joined his sons Thomas Gill and Matthew Gill in Centre County, Pennsylvania by 1822.
Isaac Gill died on 23 February 1823 in Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
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NOTES FOR ISAAC GILL
20 Apr 1760 - born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
12 Jun 1780 - Private, 8th Class, 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, Bucks County Militia under Captain Henry Darroch (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 5, vol. 5, p. 362)
21 Aug 1780 - assessed a muster fine of £540; Captain Henry Darroch's Company, Third Battalion, Bucks County Militia, New Britain Township (Appeal book, 3rd Battalion, Bucks County)
1780 - New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania: single; £5 valuation; "at Do. [ditto]" {directly below Matthew Gill, who is "at Mother's"} (township assessment)
1781 - Private, Captain Henry Darroch's Company of the Bucks County Militia (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 3, vol. 6, p. 83); 4 shillings 6 pence fines paid for April and May 1781 muster days
23 Jul 1781 - New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania: listed as having missed one muster day out of five in the first part of the year, Captain Henry Darroch's Company, Bucks County Militia
1790 - not enumerated as head-of-household in first national census; militia roll, Fifth Battalion, Northumberland County Militia under Captain Andrew Laist (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 6, vol. 3, p. 924); "absentee" from Captain Laist's Company
c. 1795 - Berlin Town [New Berlin], Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: house and lot; $20 valuation (undated township assessment list immediately preceding the one for 1796)
1796 - Town of Berlin [New Berlin], Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: $10 real estate valuation (township assessment)
1799 - "Town of Berlin [New Berlin] in E. Buffaloe," Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 lot with $12 value; 2 cents tax (township assessment)
1800 - East Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania (census, p. 719; 2-1-1-1-0 || 2-0-0-1-0 [2 males under 10; 1 male 10-15; 1 male 16-25; 1 male 26-44 || 2 females under 10; 1 female 26-44]); listed as an inhabitant of New Berlin [East Buffalo, Northumberland {Union}, Pennsylvania] (Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania; John Blair Linn; 1877; p. 322); he and his wife may have visited or settled briefly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania late in 1800 or in 1801, where his son Matthew Gill was said to have been born
Feb 1802 - dug the grave for Captain Joseph Green [{1720 - 15 Feb 1802}; grist and sawmill owner, West Buffalo] in Lewis Church yard "in the spring" of that year (The Centre Reporter; 6 September 1872)
1802 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: on land owned by Robert Barber, with a house and stable; 1 cow; jobber; tax 82 cents (township assessment); "lived near Barber [mill] White Springs [{Northumberland} Union County, Pennsylvania]" according to the testimony of his son, William Gill, as recorded in the 6 Sep 1872 article in Centre Reporter {"In 1791, Robert Barber built a sawmill on his farm on White Spring Run. In 1797, he built a gristmill on the same stream." Genealogy of the Barber Family; Edwin Atlee Barber; 1890; p. 38}
1803 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 17 cents (township assessment)
1804 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 12 cents (township assessment)
1808 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; cabin on land owned by Solomon Heise; taxed 23 cents (township assessment)
1809 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; shoemaker; taxed 23 cents (township assessment)
1810 - shoemaker; West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania (census, p. 333; 1-4-0-0-1 || 1-1-1-0-1 [1 male under 10; 4 males 10-15; 1 male over 44 || 1 female under 10; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 16-25; 1 female over 44]); 1 cow; tax 23 cents; poor schoolchildren's list, aged 6-12: Thomas, 11; Matthew and Rebecca, twins, 9; Abner, 6 (township assessment) {Note: From census records, Isaac Gill had at least nine children, though there may have been 10 or more. The 1810 census indicates at least one additional son or male child, born between about 1794 and 1800, who is not accounted for on the 1800 census.}
1811 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; cabin on 1 acre of land owned by Solomon Heise; tax 32 cents (township assessment)
1812 - Hartley, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; 3 cents personal tax; 25 cents occupational tax (township assessment); crossed out in West Buffalo, Northumberland, Pennsylvania township assessment list
1814 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: shoemaker; 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1815 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1816 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1817 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: shoemaker; 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1818 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1819 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment); crossed out
1820 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania (census, p. 82A; 0-0-0-1-0-1 || 0-0-0-1-1 [1 male 18-25; 1 male over 44 || 1 female 26-44; 1 female over 44]; 1 person engaged in manufactures); mentioned in the will of his brother, Matthew Gill of New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania, in reference to his son, also named Matthew Gill; West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: on land owned by "S[amuel] Barber, Sr." with a cabin; 1 cow; shoemaker; tax 28 cents (township assessment)
1821 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1822 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1823 - Potter, Centre, Pennsylvania: cooper; married; $89 valuation [$75 for occupation; $14 for one cow]; taxed 13 cents (township assessment) {crossed out - "gone" in 1824}
23 Feb 1823 - died in Potter, Centre, Pennsylvania {buried in Tusseyville Cemetery, Penns Valley, Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania [now Emanuel Union Church cemetery, Tusseyville; present church built in 1837]; the Spangler Papers incorrectly list his date of death as the 25th of February, 1823}
HERE [sunburst] RESTS
ISAAC GILL
HE WAS BORN THE
2oth DAY oF APRIL 176o
DIED 23D DAY oF FEBY.
1823
AGED 62 Y 10 m & 5 D
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Isaac Gill was born on 20 April 1760 in New Britain, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a son of William Gill and Esther Wells.
Shoemaker.
Private, Third Company, Third Battalion, Bucks County Militia under Captain Henry Darroch during the Revolutionary War in 1780 and 1781.
He married
(1) ______ Murdoch in 1783 and
(2) Susanna Barber in 1789.
He removed from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania where he served in the Fifth Battalion of the Northumberland County Militia under Captain Laist in 1790.
Resident of Berlin Town, Northumberland County (present-day New Berlin, Union County) by 1795.
Resident of East Buffalo, Northumberland County (present-day Union County) in 1800.
He and his family visited or resettled temporarily in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in late 1800 or early 1801.
By 1802, he was in West Buffalo, Northumberland County (present-day Union County), where he lived on Robert Barber's farm and was listed as a "jobber" on the tax list.
In the spring of 1802, he dug the grave for Joseph Green in Lewis churchyard.
He removed to Hartley, Northumberland County (present-day Union County), Pennsylvania by 1812.
Resident of West Buffalo, Union County, Pennsylvania in 1820.
He joined his sons Thomas Gill and Matthew Gill in Centre County, Pennsylvania by 1822.
Isaac Gill died on 23 February 1823 in Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
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NOTES FOR ISAAC GILL
20 Apr 1760 - born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
12 Jun 1780 - Private, 8th Class, 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, Bucks County Militia under Captain Henry Darroch (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 5, vol. 5, p. 362)
21 Aug 1780 - assessed a muster fine of £540; Captain Henry Darroch's Company, Third Battalion, Bucks County Militia, New Britain Township (Appeal book, 3rd Battalion, Bucks County)
1780 - New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania: single; £5 valuation; "at Do. [ditto]" {directly below Matthew Gill, who is "at Mother's"} (township assessment)
1781 - Private, Captain Henry Darroch's Company of the Bucks County Militia (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 3, vol. 6, p. 83); 4 shillings 6 pence fines paid for April and May 1781 muster days
23 Jul 1781 - New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania: listed as having missed one muster day out of five in the first part of the year, Captain Henry Darroch's Company, Bucks County Militia
1790 - not enumerated as head-of-household in first national census; militia roll, Fifth Battalion, Northumberland County Militia under Captain Andrew Laist (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 6, vol. 3, p. 924); "absentee" from Captain Laist's Company
c. 1795 - Berlin Town [New Berlin], Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: house and lot; $20 valuation (undated township assessment list immediately preceding the one for 1796)
1796 - Town of Berlin [New Berlin], Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: $10 real estate valuation (township assessment)
1799 - "Town of Berlin [New Berlin] in E. Buffaloe," Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 lot with $12 value; 2 cents tax (township assessment)
1800 - East Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania (census, p. 719; 2-1-1-1-0 || 2-0-0-1-0 [2 males under 10; 1 male 10-15; 1 male 16-25; 1 male 26-44 || 2 females under 10; 1 female 26-44]); listed as an inhabitant of New Berlin [East Buffalo, Northumberland {Union}, Pennsylvania] (Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania; John Blair Linn; 1877; p. 322); he and his wife may have visited or settled briefly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania late in 1800 or in 1801, where his son Matthew Gill was said to have been born
Feb 1802 - dug the grave for Captain Joseph Green [{1720 - 15 Feb 1802}; grist and sawmill owner, West Buffalo] in Lewis Church yard "in the spring" of that year (The Centre Reporter; 6 September 1872)
1802 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: on land owned by Robert Barber, with a house and stable; 1 cow; jobber; tax 82 cents (township assessment); "lived near Barber [mill] White Springs [{Northumberland} Union County, Pennsylvania]" according to the testimony of his son, William Gill, as recorded in the 6 Sep 1872 article in Centre Reporter {"In 1791, Robert Barber built a sawmill on his farm on White Spring Run. In 1797, he built a gristmill on the same stream." Genealogy of the Barber Family; Edwin Atlee Barber; 1890; p. 38}
1803 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 17 cents (township assessment)
1804 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 12 cents (township assessment)
1808 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; cabin on land owned by Solomon Heise; taxed 23 cents (township assessment)
1809 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; shoemaker; taxed 23 cents (township assessment)
1810 - shoemaker; West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania (census, p. 333; 1-4-0-0-1 || 1-1-1-0-1 [1 male under 10; 4 males 10-15; 1 male over 44 || 1 female under 10; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 16-25; 1 female over 44]); 1 cow; tax 23 cents; poor schoolchildren's list, aged 6-12: Thomas, 11; Matthew and Rebecca, twins, 9; Abner, 6 (township assessment) {Note: From census records, Isaac Gill had at least nine children, though there may have been 10 or more. The 1810 census indicates at least one additional son or male child, born between about 1794 and 1800, who is not accounted for on the 1800 census.}
1811 - West Buffalo, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; cabin on 1 acre of land owned by Solomon Heise; tax 32 cents (township assessment)
1812 - Hartley, Northumberland [Union], Pennsylvania: 1 cow; cordwainer; 3 cents personal tax; 25 cents occupational tax (township assessment); crossed out in West Buffalo, Northumberland, Pennsylvania township assessment list
1814 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: shoemaker; 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1815 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1816 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1817 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: shoemaker; 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1818 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1819 - Hartley, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment); crossed out
1820 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania (census, p. 82A; 0-0-0-1-0-1 || 0-0-0-1-1 [1 male 18-25; 1 male over 44 || 1 female 26-44; 1 female over 44]; 1 person engaged in manufactures); mentioned in the will of his brother, Matthew Gill of New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania, in reference to his son, also named Matthew Gill; West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: on land owned by "S[amuel] Barber, Sr." with a cabin; 1 cow; shoemaker; tax 28 cents (township assessment)
1821 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1822 - West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania: 1 cow; taxed 28 cents (township assessment)
1823 - Potter, Centre, Pennsylvania: cooper; married; $89 valuation [$75 for occupation; $14 for one cow]; taxed 13 cents (township assessment) {crossed out - "gone" in 1824}
23 Feb 1823 - died in Potter, Centre, Pennsylvania {buried in Tusseyville Cemetery, Penns Valley, Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania [now Emanuel Union Church cemetery, Tusseyville; present church built in 1837]; the Spangler Papers incorrectly list his date of death as the 25th of February, 1823}
HERE [sunburst] RESTS
ISAAC GILL
HE WAS BORN THE
2oth DAY oF APRIL 176o
DIED 23D DAY oF FEBY.
1823
AGED 62 Y 10 m & 5 D
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HERE [sunburst] RESTS
ISAAC GILL
HE WAS BORN THE
2oth DAY oF APRIL 176o
DIED 23D DAY oF FEBY.
1823
AGED 62 Y 10 m & 5 D
Gravesite Details
The Spangler Papers incorrectly list his date of death as the "25th of February, 1823" based on a reading of the gravestone, but the marker itself lists his date of death as "23D DAY oF FEBY 1823" (see photograph).
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